A jury in North Charleston ruled on August 10th, that the dog mauling of a 2-year-old boy in North Charleston was an accident, and there was no foul play at hand.

Ja’Marr Tiller, the 2-year-old victim was a resident of Mt. Pleasant, a subsidiary of Charleston, S.C. The special jury was asked to determine if anyone should be held liable for the death od the little boy.

There was a major discrepancy in what the animal control officers were claiming, versus what the autopsy report discovered which led to the special jury being instructed the aforementioned.

According to the animal control officer, the dogs in question were timid, and upon capture, no sign of human blood was found in their teeth or hair. The vet offered a secondary statement, agreeing with animal control that the attack did not involve the dogs in question.

However, to the contrary, the autopsy report established that the child was in fact killed by the dogs, as the 193 wounds that were on the child’s body matched the teeth marks of the 2 dogs that were found on the scene on May 27, 2012.

The child’s body was found by his mother, after the mother returned from running errands. It is assumed that the child walked outside through the unlocked door of his home, right into the peril that killed him.

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It was a tragic day this past Sunday when Dan McGee was fatally wounded in a terrible car accident near Lake Wylie. The accident occurred in the city limits of Charlotte, in the 13000 block of Zoar Road, right on the border of the Carolinas, and directly outside the Lake Wylie city limits.

McGee was said to be driving alone, when he ran his 2007 Infiniti M45 off the road, eventually striking a tree and consequently, overturning his vehicle. It is unknown at this point whether alcohol played a role in this accident or not, however the police are still investigating. Speed, on the other hand, has been ruled a contributory factor in the one-man car accident.

McGee was pronounced dead at the scene due to the impact of the accident.

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Yesterday afternoon was a busy one for common travellers of Interstate 85, where there were three separate car accidents; one consequently being deadly.

This particular Interstate is one of the major highway routes throughout the Southeastern Unites States and notorious for housing many car accidents or wrecks. Drivers from Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virgina are all privy to the use of this major highway. Due to the common use and frequency of its roadways, Interstate 85 unfortunately can be a dangerous one for drivers.

Kannapolis, N.C. reported these three separate accidents from the morning, til the afternoon. As stated above, one of the accidents resulted in a fatality, whereas the other two accidents are still being investigated.

It is always important to be vigilant of your surrounding when using any sort of roadways; however, in the event that one is travelling down a major highway, they must be even more cautious, as there are more people driving at precisely the same time.

My father used to always tell me, “It is not you that I am worried about driving, it is everyone else. You need to pretend that every other driver is a teenager with a permit. You owe them an extra duty of care, as they reciprocally owe you, so always be careful on the busy highways.”

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According to a recent report released by AAA Carolinas, the deadliest county for the highest number of fatal crashes was Mecklenburg, with 67 fatal crashes in 2011, up from 46 in 2010.

However, the total number of the total number of traffic fatalities in North Carolina dropped 8 percent from 1,328 in 2010 to 1,217 last year. This number has been steadily decreasing over the past few years (1,344 in 2009; 1,452 in 2008) and is likely attributed to a number of factors, including: the fact that there is now more targeted traffic enforcement on crash-prone roads by local and state law enforcement officers; there has been a decline in miles traveled; and more safety features in new cars, such as traction control have helped with preventing traffic fatalities.

For all vehicles in North Carolina, the total number of crashes in 2011 was 208,545, down from 213,739 in 2010. Although vehicle miles traveled was also down from 2010, the relative number of crashes dropped from 208.9 crashes per 100 million vehicle miles traveled in 2010 to 205.7 crashes per 100 million vehicle miles traveled in 2011.

However, these numbers are calculated for the state as a whole, and not simply for the county Charlotte is located in.

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This morning around 6:30 a.m., a hit-and run that resulted in injuries caused horrific traffic for all travellers of Interstate 485, Interstate 77, and caused detours all the way to Concord.

The car accident occurred this morning at the intersection of Pineville- Matthews Road and Rea Road in South Charlotte Motorists were forced to use Interstate 485 as an alternate route. This particular highway is notorious for having some of the worst morning traffic in the greater Mecklenburg area. However, when ever there is a car accident during the morning hours, the highway is particularly slow.

Unfortunately, the victim of the hit-and-run suffered injuries, as did all the drivers on our interstates this morning. Both of our major interstates were “bumper-to-bumper” traffic for hours, as drivers were forced to use alternate routes, that in turn, created worse traffic through the city’s streets.

In the event that there is a car accident, the best course of measure is to just continue on your route and do not slow down or come to a halt to scrutinize the severity of the accident. Distractions are plentiful enough as drivers are trying to make it to work on time in the morning. It is simply adding injury to insult when the drivers serve as ” on-lookers” make matters worse by continuing the distraction through a new medium.

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